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Regulating Electronic Legal Support Across State And National Boundaries, Cassandra Burke Robertson
Regulating Electronic Legal Support Across State And National Boundaries, Cassandra Burke Robertson
Faculty Publications
Technology and globalization are changing the practice of law and creating new challenges for lawyer regulation. Middle-class litigants who struggle to afford legal services — but are comfortable using online resources — are increasingly seeking and finding legal support online. State and national boundaries dissolve in the online marketplace, making it easy for attorneys to provide services to litigants in other jurisdictions. Differences in national economies make it cost effective for both clients and lawyers to engage in transnational practice, so that attorneys in India and other jurisdictions can offer legal support and advice to American litigants for as little …
The Problems Of Plagiarism As An Ethics Offense, Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. Mcmunigal
The Problems Of Plagiarism As An Ethics Offense, Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. Mcmunigal
Faculty Publications
This column questions the practices of labeling attorney copying, even without acknowledgement, as plagiarism, and treating it as a per se ethics violation. Instead, the column argues that analysis of copying in the litigation context should focus directly on the quality of the filing at issue and the competence and diligence of the lawyer who prepared it.